Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] for some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , where the defendant is charged under Category 2 with threatening the complainant with an offensive weapon or instrument with intent to have sexual intercourse , he may state that he brandished a knife to persuade the victim to hand over money or for some other purpose unconnected with sexual intercourse and that sexual intercourse in fact took place with consent . |
| 2 | Sites suspected through documentary research or for some other reason may also need to be more precisely pinpointed before excavation can take place . |
| 3 | ‘ Younger men find it easier to learn the language of self-expression and emotion but for some older men it is a jump that is simply not possible . |
| 4 | Younger men find it easier to learn the language of self-expression and emotion but for some older men it is a jump that is simply not possible |
| 5 | If the building is rented , there is little opportunity for practical work except for some fevered activity on Sunday . |
| 6 | The usual qualification required for admission to study for a research degree and for some taught postgraduate courses is a first degree with an excellent or very good classification ( first or upper second class honours in the UK ) . |
| 7 | Further , no married woman could make a will without her husband 's consent , nor ( with trifling exceptions ) make any contract , except as agent either for her husband or for some other person : it would have been absurd to let her contract when she had no free property out of which she could pay . |
| 8 | were to have put his job in jeopardy , either because of the existence of a closed shop or for some other reason . |
| 9 | But Lord Diplock suggested that different considerations might apply if the effect of Cheall 's expulsion from APEX were to have put his job in jeopardy because of the existence of a closed shop or for some other reason . |
| 10 | The function of the leave requirement is not spelled out in Order 53 , but it is designed to weed out cases which have no real chance of success or which might be called ‘ frivolous ’ or ‘ vexatious ’ in the sense of being brought not out of a genuine interest in the outcome but for some ulterior motive such as to make things difficult for a government agency . |
| 11 | How could she tell this impossible Dane that for some wild , unaccountable moment the previous evening , when his mouth had joined with hers , she 'd imagined they shared a mutual attraction so powerful that it had overridden any man-made measurement of time or propriety ? |
| 12 | Leeds could have gone 2–0 up before H-T except for some sharp goalkeeping from their young keeper when he reflexed a sidefoot effort from Deane , from a cross by Wallace . |
| 13 | He discovered that all his desires were related to the need we all have for God himself — not just for a mother 's love or for some other intense childhood need . |
| 14 | The Government have failed absolutely to tackle unemployment except for some cosmetic surgery . |
| 15 | By abuse here 1 mean not only illegal uses of violence by those who are in defined circumstances entitled to use force , but the legal use of force where the objectives are antithetical to social order or for some other reasons morally objectionable . |
| 16 | The programme includes battle re-enactments , historical drama , period music and dance , merry-making , living history and for some spooky fun , ghost tours . |
| 17 | Lord Beddington was not appreciating the day to its fullest , despite the fact that for some unknown reason it had seemed a good idea to buy a Panama hat . |
| 18 | Then he went erm into the Navy for a short time and for some unknown reason he managed to get out of the Navy and came as Mr 's Personal Assistant and erm one of his jobs was to erm get these pe children sorted out and I used to write no end of letters for him to erm places like erm Ilford and Wanstead and mainly the northern suburbs of London erm about certain children who had been attending central schools which were something , which were something that erm East Suffolk could n't offer and erm trying to decide whether they ought to go to grammar school or one of the area schools as they we then were |
| 19 | I write in the past tense because I lost it in an arctic spell of weather and for some inexplicable reason have yet to replace it . |